When I plunged into the sound of “#11” I had a vision reminding me of one of my favorite films: deserted grounds hardly covered with a thin water surface betraying the vital element that once breathed and lived there. I suddenly realize that I follow the tracks of this very first work of the duo LLS04, just like the two protagonists of the film learned to follow the Stalker all the way to the mystery of the “Zone”. Little by little I find myself within landscapes of mighty stateliness, almost as if I were led into an illuminating path towards other spaces, followed by the continuous breath of drones immersed in an ambient mode enriched by noise intervals that allow for a control of the listening experience without derailing your perception. Someone might think this is the umpteenth work dedicated to the dark-ambient sound, but nothing in '#11' can be said to derive from that sonic movement. The path within the 'Zone' traced by LLS04 is an approach to the light, to the birth of things, there where the beam of emotions becomes blinding, there where your eyes close to leave space to the perceptive wonders of pure listening...
“Weakness is power, and strength is nothing. When man is born, he is weak and flexible. When he dies, he is strong and stiff like a tree is. When the tree grows, it is tender and flexible, and when it is stiff and dry, it dies. Stiffness and strength are attributes of death, weakness and flexibility express the freshness of existence” (the Stalker) from Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)

Mirco Salvadori

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